From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 11:49: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F3137B825 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA74841; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008021848.LAA74841@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: making a RELEASE In-Reply-To: from Plamen Petkov at "Aug 2, 2000 03:54:20 pm" To: Plamen Petkov Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Plamen Petkov wrote: > > >From all of this 'make a RELEASE' threath I realize the following: > > 1. I cvsup-ed all the sources > > 2. I made the world succesfully - i feel fine, i have a -STABLE FreeBSD, > working just as expected, I am happy with my STABLE FreeBSD :-) etc.. > > 3. However I can not have it on a CD, just to have it on a safe place ? > > Just imagine: some big crash and I have to start again from my last > FreeBSD Release (currently 4.0-R on a CDROM I purchased from > www.cdrom.com) step by step toward 'current' -STABLE ... One thing to note is that there are daily snapshots available for FTP installs from releng4.freebsd.org. > Well, well, FreeBSD Core & Developer Team :-) I know, things like that > happens and ... well, friend, yes, 'start again'... but... any workaround > ? You can build your own releases if you want to, but be forewarned that it can easily take several hours, and require a good chunk of disk space. You will need to cvsup the actual CVS repo, not just the checked-out source. Also, read the comments at the top of the release Makefile. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message